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Reinventing the toilet: A Yale dropout gets creative

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, January 21, 2002

According to its holder, U.S. patent number 6,256,800 is going to revolutionize Western civilization. Made of "powder coated" tubular steel, it sells for $85 plus $13 shipping and handling over the Internet.

The inventor is Jonathan Isbit, a member of Yale's Class of 1972 who left school one semester short of graduation. The product is "Nature's Platform," essentially a table elevated at a 5 degree angle that allows the inclined to squat 2 inches above the seat of a conventional toilet.

And the inspiration for his water closet crusade, Isbit said, is Yale...

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